ePict Panel

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ePict Panel for Grafana

Introduction

This panel allows you to choose the image you want, and show live metrics over it. You can easily add values on complex diagrams, or infrastructure picture for example.

Enter the URL of the image you want, and add some metrics on it.

Options

Background URL

Enter the URL of the image over which you want to display metrics.

Autoscale

Determines if the panel should automatically scale down its content to fit the view. This is useful if the image you want to show is too big for smaller screens. Note that the autoscale feature is disabled while you are editing the settings, this allows you to accurately position your boxes.

Boxes definitions

The boxes contains the data you want to show over the background image.

When you add a box, you have to set the Metric Name first (by default: "A-Series"), this value must match the name of the metric you want to display in this box. You can easily choose the Metric you want by clicking on Change Metric.

If you want, you can add a Prefix and/or a Suffix that will be appended before/after the value on your image.

The Position are the coordinates (X, Y) at which the value will be drawn. X:0, Y:0 is the top left corner of your image. Note that you can Ctrl-Click anywhere on the image, and a popup will show you the coordinates of the point on which you clicked. You can also move a box on the image with your mouse directly.

If you add a link in the URL field, you will be able to click on the metric to follow that link.

The Symbol Library allows you the show a symbol inside your box, you can also Hide value to hide the metric's value.

The Orb category allows you to show an orb either next to the text, or without the text.

The Use thresholds checkbox allows you to specify different colors based on the current value of your metric. You can also choose if the value blinks when the thresholds are reached.

Installing ePict Panel on Grafana Cloud:

For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.

Changelog

v2.0.6

Fixes an issue where values formatted as string were not shown.
Fixes an issue that caused a white square to appear in the bottom right corner of the panel.
New feature: You can now show a border around the boxes.
New feature: When choosing a metric, a hint will be displayed so that you can easily see which metric you are already using in your panel.

v2.0.5

New feature: You can enable Autoscale in the panel options to automatically shrink its content when there's not enough space on screen.
New feature: Boxes can be rearranged by drag and drop.
New feature: You can show a SVG symbol inside a box
New feature: Boxes can show text values (previously, only numeric values were shown)
New feature: You can show a background color behind a box

v2.0.4

Fixes an issue that prevented new installation of recent versions of the plugin on Grafana v8

v2.0.3

Fixes an issue with the clone button
Suffix now blinks if the value is blinking

v2.0.2

Fixes an issue that occurs while the panel upgrades its internal data from previous version
Fixes an issue that prevented certain datasources to be selected as metric

v2.0.1

Fixes an issue triggered when the last value of the serie was null

v2.0.0

Complete code rewrite (AngularJS to React)
The Metric field is a drop-down list for ease of use.

v1.2.2

New feature: A tooltip is now available on the orbs with the current value.
New feature: You can specify a rotation angle for the boxes.
New feature: You can use variables in the Metric Name field of the boxes, so you can easily change the metrics used by your boxes.

v1.2.1

New feature: You can now duplicate boxdefinitions
New feature: You can now use variables in the URL fields (for the background URL and the clickable link in the boxes)
Bugfix: The "Unsaved Changes" dialog box should not appear when the user has not made any changes.